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Sale: Nomos 11, Lot: 16. Estimate CHF2500. 
Closing Date: Thursday, 8 October 2015. 
Bidding Closed. 

LUCANIA, Metapontum. Circa 290-280 BC. Didrachm or Nomos (Silver, 22mm, 7.58 g 8). Head of Demeter to right, wearing wreath of barley ears. Rev. ΜΕΤΑ Ear of barley; to left, satyr standing on barley leaf and playing pipes. HN III 1614. Johnston D2.8. SNG Lloyd 395. Rare. Nicely toned. Areas flatly struck on the reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.


From a Swiss collection, acquired from Maison Platt in Paris in 1980.